The physicists Leonard Susskind and Gerard 't Hooft helped to pioneer the holographic principle. Susskind says, “Here, then, is the conclusion that 't Hooft and I had reached: the three-dimensional world of ordinary experience—the universe filled with galaxies, stars, planets, houses, boulders, and people—is a hologram, an image of reality coded on a distant two-dimensional (2D) surface. This new law of physics, known as the holographic principle, asserts that everything inside a region of space can be described by bits of information restricted to the boundary.”34 This principle is now widely
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